It is a case of the teacher reminding the pupil

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From Hafiz Hassan

On Aug 6, 2020, finance minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz stood up in the Dewan Rakyat to take his turn to deliver his winding-up speech for the finance ministry – the last in the Order Paper for the day – for the debate on the royal address by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

It was already 5.55pm, but minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (law and Parliament) Takiyuddin Hassan had earlier in the day moved that the House not be adjourned until the last minister had completed his turn to answer during the debate on the royal address.

Forty-five minutes into his speech, Zafrul was asked by his predecessor, Lim Guan Eng, about the RM3.9 million 1MDB settlement agreement with Goldman Sachs:

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